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Early Islamic Urbanism
At the beginning of Islam, new cities were patterned after the needs of Arabia, but that slowly changed when the caliphate was transferred to Damascus in and then to Baghdad in 762. New Early Islamic cities were often planned with grids of streets, at least those founded by members of the state, after the initial period. The urban form was not the only one used for palace complexes in the Islamic world. The city of Samarra can be described as composed of an unwalled agglomeration of a number of units, each one with an orthogonal grid of streets. One of the most interesting parts of Samarra is the new royal city added to the north in 245. Two imitations of the Round City exist: al‐Rafiqa, the Abbasid city at Raqqa in Syria, and Qadisiyya, called al‐Mubarak, near Samarra. There was also a walled governmental quarter at Palermo in Sicily called al‐Khalis, founded by the Fatimids.
Early Islamic Urbanism
At the beginning of Islam, new cities were patterned after the needs of Arabia, but that slowly changed when the caliphate was transferred to Damascus in and then to Baghdad in 762. New Early Islamic cities were often planned with grids of streets, at least those founded by members of the state, after the initial period. The urban form was not the only one used for palace complexes in the Islamic world. The city of Samarra can be described as composed of an unwalled agglomeration of a number of units, each one with an orthogonal grid of streets. One of the most interesting parts of Samarra is the new royal city added to the north in 245. Two imitations of the Round City exist: al‐Rafiqa, the Abbasid city at Raqqa in Syria, and Qadisiyya, called al‐Mubarak, near Samarra. There was also a walled governmental quarter at Palermo in Sicily called al‐Khalis, founded by the Fatimids.
Early Islamic Urbanism
Flood, Finbarr Barry (editor) / Necipoğlu, Gülru (editor) / Northedge, Alastair (author)
2017-08-21
22 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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